Our new Good Business Journey (GBJ) strategy, is intended to enable the Group to be a leading, purpose-driven, truly connected retailer, by aiming to address the complex and interconnected sustainability challenges and opportunities we face now and into the future. It is also intended to ensure that our GBJ continues to keep us at the forefront of sustainability leadership, pushing us to innovate and collaborate with others.
When setting the goals and targets for this strategy, we aimed to achieve the following:
Adding Quality to Life
To Be One of the World’s Most Responsible Retailers
Good Business Journey
We care about inclusive justice. We are committed to advancing it across our spheres of influence through access, diversity, and inclusion that create opportunity, strengthen representivity, and foster a genuine sense of equity and belonging
We care about how our products are made. We are committed to a fully transparent, traceable, and ethical supply chain
We care for the environment. We are committed to working towards net zero impact and a just transition to a low-carbon economy
For some of these goals, there is currently uncertainty with regards to the pathway to achieve them. We will need to conduct groundwork to identify relevant certifications, programmes, technologies, and emerging innovation; put in place new or improved measurement and reporting processes and systems; set aside additional budget to support the business in implementation; and identify peers, NGOs, and other organisations with whom we can collaborate.
Achieve B-BBEE level 3 by 2028
Move from ‘Achiever’ to ‘Leader’ in the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles assessment by 2028
Implement a five-year Employment Equity Plan to guide workforce transformation and achieve equitable representation through to 2030.
Have a fully transparent, traceable, and ethical supply chain by 2030
Responsibly source all key commodities from traceable sources
All private-label products to support regenerative farming practices by 2030
Halve food loss and waste in our own operations and across our top 30 suppliers by 2030
Reduce the amount of virgin plastic in our packaging by 25% by 2030 using 2020 baseline
Achieve net zero carbon impact by 2040
Work with our suppliers and partners to create a positive water impact in waterstressed basins in our value chain by 2050
Source 100% of our energy from renewable sources
